Kolkata: The scorching mid-day heat has led to a sharp footfall drop across restaurants, many of which are wearing a deserted look till evening. Sales have tumbled by an average of 25% across Kolkata’s restaurants and bars, according to ...
23 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: While planning a trip to a scenic village of Keran in Ayodhya Hills last Dec, Abin Das and his family decided to skip hotels and stay with a host family. At Rs 1,000 a night, the accommodation, nicely ...
23 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Partly cloudy skies and a minor temperature dip brought false hopes of a heatwave break on Monday, but the Met office warned that the near 40° Celsius dry spell is likely to continue till at least Sunday.With no ...
23 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata’s street food centres are bearing the brunt of the city’s scorching weather with lunch-hour crowds in the Central Business District staying away from the food vendors. Thousands of office-goers depend on street food in areas like Dalhousie, ...
23 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Cabbies operating CNG-run cars blocked a fuel station in Beliaghata on Monday morning complaining over unavailability of the green fuel on most days.Over 30 app cabbies, along with drivers of other commercial vehicles, blocked the road in front ...
23 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Monday dismissed a petition challenging a central notification banning the import, sale, and breeding of dog breeds, including Pitbull, Rottweiler, Terrier, Mastiffs, and their crossbreeds, which are generally considered dangerous.The Centre told Justice ...
23 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The chief electoral officer of Bengal on Monday held a meeting with activists and organisations championing the cause of greater access for everyone to learn how they could make the booths barrier-free for people with disability. The first ...
23 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: As temperatures soar across South Asia, cities are ramping up efforts to protect their communities from the debilitating effects of heatwaves. In Kolkata, the city government must lead the charge with a multifaceted approach aimed at proactive communication ...
23 April 2024 Times of IndiaRAIGANJ/KOLKATA: The Chief Minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, has declared the Calcutta High Court's decision to cancel all appointments made through the 2016 teacher recruitment test as 'illegal'. She made this statement while speaking at an election rally ...
22 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Calcutta high court has cancelled all appointments of teaching and non-teaching staff made through the 2016 state-level exams in the state govt-sponsored and aided schools. The high court made the decision on Monday regarding the State Level Selection ...
22 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: More than 54,000 fans collectively guzzled a few lakh pouches of water and ORS at the Eden Gardens during the IPL match between KKR and RCB on a scorching Sunday afternoon, at a time when Kolkata is probably ...
22 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: When Annapoorani Rajkumar, around 40 years old, reached the Petrapole border checkpost with a load of cotton yarn after driving from Tamil Nadu for 10 days, covering around 1000km, on Sunday, she became an instant celebrity - the ...
22 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Three days after reports of three tilted buildings in a housing society in Maniktala’s Muraripukur area had created an uproar, a 15-year-old residential building on James Long Sarani near Thakurpukur has come under the spotlight.On Saturday, residents of ...
22 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: An eight-storey building opposite Hind cinema on Raja Subodh Mullick Square will be evacuated from Monday as a precautionary measure for the ongoing construction of the last cross-passage of East-West Metro’s unfinished Esplanade-Sealdah section.Sources said that KMRC engineers ...
22 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state CID will conduct individual investigations into all 13 FIRs filed in the Saktipur and Beldanga areas of Murshidabad in connection with the violence that occurred during Ram Navami celebrations. Nineteen people, including the OC of Saktipur ...
22 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Rajinder-saddled Attenborough runs with a great chance of winning the Delhi Racing Officials Cup at Delhi on Monday.Delhi Selections3pm: 1. Ashwa Sabira 2. More Bucks 3. Digamber. 3.30pm: 1. Heer 2. Senor 3. Successful.4pm: 1. Ashwa Yashodhra 2. ...
22 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Around 4.5lakh passengers travelled from the 26 stations of the North-South Metro to the newly launched Esplanade-Howrah Maidan stretch of the East-West Metro in the first fortnight of the latter’s launch on March 15.The above data was released ...
22 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: This season’s scorching heat is triggering a spurt in the number of dehydration cases among pets at veterinary clinics across the city. Pet clinicians are administering saline water to the furry patients and advising diets to help them ...
22 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: It was the last wish of late Enakshi Chottopadhyay — who had retired from Rishi Aurobindo Vidyapith in Santoshpur area in 1995 as an assistant teacher— to donate the last penny to the school for its betterment. And, ...
22 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state CID has busted a multi-state online racket that targeted senior citizens through multiple modus operandi like KYC fraud, investment and loan fraud and IT return frauds.The CID found that the gang had set up call centres ...
22 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 19-year-old second-year BCom student of a top Kolkata college — who was also preparing to be a chartered accountant — was found dead at the parking lot of her tower located in the Kasba area in the ...
22 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA/BALURGHAT: Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee accused BJP on Sunday of conspiring to harm her and Trinamool general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, latching on to MLA Suvendu Adhikari's remark the previous day about an impending "huge explosion" that would shatter ...
22 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A Kolkata-based trader who had gone missing from his Karaya residence on April 5 was found at the Lower Dibang Valley of Arunachal Pradesh on Saturday morning. The valley is located 1,193 km from Kolkata and 568 km ...
21 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA/MALDA: "I formed the INDIA alliance, no one else. And, if the alliance wins, we will form it again, but not in Bengal. Trinamool Congress is fighting BJP alone in Bengal," CM Mamata Banerjee said in a public meeting ...
21 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA/MALDA: Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday questioned why the people of India, the majority of whom are non-vegetarians, should not have the right to make their own food choices. She questioned why multiple shops selling non-veg items ...
21 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Behala resident Sandip Ghosh was returning home from office on Monday evening when he heard slogans and saw a big procession marching towards him from the opposite side in his lane. Surprised at the flurry of activities at ...
21 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city, engulfed in heatwaves, registered this season’s highest power demand of 2,473 MW on Saturday, springing a surprise as demand on weekdays is usually higher than the weekend. In a week, demand has increased by 803 MW, ...
21 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The onset of heatwave in the city has led to a huge demand for oral rehydration solutions (ORS) that have been flying off the shelves fast, leading to a shortage in supply. While the demand has gone up ...
21 April 2024 Times of IndiaDurgapur: A Durgapur court on Saturday granted bail to BJP’s Burdwan-Asansol candidate and former state unit president Dilip Ghosh on an FIR against him for describing Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee as being of “doubtful parentage”. Ghosh was censored by ...
21 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: A 35-year-old Indian Army sepoy — posted at Fort William and a resident of Haripal in Hooghly — lost his life after the bike he was riding skidded on the AJC Bose Road-Maa flyover link near the seven-point ...
21 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The police have arrested nine persons in two separate cases of investment fraud carried out through either WhatsApp or Telegram apps or controlled from a fake call centre.One Adarsh Sonkar from Burrabazar area was arrested on Friday night ...
21 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: The city is in the grip of a heat wave, with the temperature soaring past the 40-degree Celsius mark. Afternoons, in particular, are extremely uncomfortable and the doctors’ advice is to stay indoors to avoid heatstroke and other ...
21 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Work for the underground tunnelling section of the Joka-Esplanade corridor, also called the Purple line, has now started. Implementing agency RVNL has started building the shaft from where the tunnel boring machines (TBMs) will be launched for burrowing ...
21 April 2024 Times of IndiaKolkata: Rasanna Kumar-tutored Bharat from Bangalore gets the first call to win the Nilgiris 2000 Guineas at Ooty on Sunday. The son of Castanea has been well prepared to win this event in the hands of C. Umesh. Another ...
21 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: After teetering just under 40°C for three days, the maximum temperature in Kolkata finally crossed the mark on Friday, reaching 40.8°C, officially putting the city under heatwave conditions. In fact, Dum Dum saw the mercury spiralling up to ...
20 April 2024 Times of IndiaDINHATA: For 69-year-old Trinamool MLA Udayan Guha, the day started with a visit to the hospital early in the morning to meet an injured party worker and ended with him facing a retreat and demonstration at his own assembly ...
20 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA/JANGIPUR: Taking on EC on Friday, Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee claimed that central forces were acting like "party cadre" who were controlling poll lines and threatening voters. At a rally in Murshidabad's Jangipur, Banerjee said: "I love the central ...
20 April 2024 Times of IndiaSILIGURI: BJP's Dabgram-Phulbari MLA Sikha Chatterjee on Friday kept police on their toes throughout the day with cops restraining her, then her workers taking her away forcibly from police detention and later the men in uniform giving her a ...
20 April 2024 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A fire broke out in Haldia's supermarket area, located in West Bengal, causing severe damage to multiple shops. The cause of the fire is yet to be determined. No reports of injuries have been received so far. More ...
20 April 2024 Times of IndiaDINHATA: For seven decades, they lived in a state of limbo with their identities and rights unrecognized. But everything changed with an EPIC card in 2015, when residents of the no-man's land in Dinhata were offered citizenship following a ...
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